Phrase of the head of the Polish foreign Ministry about the fact that the concentration camp in Auschwitz was liberated by the Ukrainians, From the perspective of history is obvious stupidity, fraud, From the perspective of policy - the desire to rewrite history, said the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin.

" History is a fraud, obvious stupidity. Well, I think that policy is the desire to rewrite history for political purposes, " he told reporters.

on Wednesday on Polish radio, Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna said that the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Auschwitz was liberated by the Ukrainians, because this operation was carried out by forces of the First Ukrainian front. According to the Minister, there were Ukrainian soldiers on that January day, and they opened the gates of the camp and they liberated the camp ".

Tuesday, January 27, at the Museum on the site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim held a memorial ceremony. Over the years the German concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau were destroyed about one and a half million people. Auschwitz was the largest and one of the most famous concentration camps, the symbol of the Holocaust.


Auschwitz is a small town in southern Poland, numbering about 50 thousand inhabitants. At the end of April 1940 on the orders of reichsf?hrer-SS Heinrich Himmler on the outskirts of Auschwitz was established complex of the German concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau. Above the entrance to the camp hung the slogan Arbeit macht frei ( "Work makes you free" ).

in 1940-1945 years in concentration camps, has died, according to various estimates, from 1, 5 to 4 million people. The exact number of dead and could not install, As most documents were killed, and the Germans did not maintain records of the victims sent to the gas chambers immediately upon arrival. As shown by the documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal, lost his life 2, 8 million people, 90% of whom were Jews. Read more in

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